Thursday, 30 April 2015

I
removed the cork from the bottle and put a small piece of Blu Tack in the
hole, I stuck a cocktail stick into this so I had something to hold it by
whilst I painted it. I gave it a coat of Multi Medium and used the stick as a
stand to poke it into a large piece of Blu Tack on my desk while it dried.

I
useda pair of wire cutters to remove
the eyelet hole from the top of the star in the charm set, I filed it to remove
any sharp edges and glued this to the front of the bottle.

Using
Cut and Dry Foam I sponged Multi Media paint over the bottle and star, to do
this I put small spots of Quinacridone, Phthalo Green-Blue and Gold onto my
craft mat and picked them up and mixed them as I went directly on the bottle,
adjusting the amount as I went until I was happy with the finished effect.

I
replaced the cork and useing a bead cap from a broken necklace I poked a screw
eye through the hole in the bead cap and then bent the whole bead cap over the
top of the bottle screwing the eyelet into the cork, adding a spot of Glossy
Accents to hold the whole thing tight in place.

The
beads and chain are from the same piece of broken jewellery, I added these with
jump rings. I now decided it needed a bit of a gothic touch so I dug a plastic
skull out of my Halloween stash and painted this in exactly the same way as the
bottle to give it an old rusty look. I added a Screw eye to the top so I could
hang it from a length of chain and add it to the necklace.

Here's what I did...

1. I primed three 2x2 inch canvasses with the White
Gesso, using a palette knife. I wanted a bit of texture, so I did this quite
roughly.

2. Next, I stamped images from the Primitive Icons
and Textures stamp sets onto the canvasses. I used the brayer to apply the
paint to the stamps, adding a dot of colour to the craft mat, rolling it out,
then applying it to the stamps. I stamped the script with Sterling, although it
doesn't show up very well in my photo, but it adds a bit of shimmer.

3. I used sponged the sides of the canvasses with
paint, one with Blackberry Violet, one with Sky, and the last
with Lime.

4. Whilst I was stamping the canvasses in step 2, I
was cleaning the paint from my brayer onto a scrap of card. I stamped the words
onto this painty scrap, with Black paint. As you can see, the word 'LOVE'
didn't stamp too well the first time, so I stamped it again.

5. I cut out the words and glued them onto the
canvasses with Glossy Accents. I used the end of a paintbrush to added some
Sterling paint accent dots.

6. I painted a piece of 8 x 3 inch mat board with
black gesso, added silver gilding wax to the edges, some eyelets and ball chain
to the top, then adhered my three canvasses.

I hope I've inspired you to make some colourful art
with Dina's luscious paint colours and stamps.

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Donna
here today sharing a tag I made using the beautiful angel stamp from Carabelle Studio.
It really is a pleasure colouring her in and I’ve also given her some heart
shaped wings!

Let
me show you the background I made first:

and
then I carved this stamp from Speedy-Carve:

Then
you put it all together after a little colouring etc and you get this:

This Is What I Did:

I
had a size 8 tag on hand to mop up some brayering on wood I did. I always find
these ‘mop up’ tags really lead to some interesting colour and pattern
combinations. This was using Fresco paints. The paint was just applied
randomly.

Taking
an old credit card, I printed some random lines on the tag using surplus black
paint I had.

Then
take a DecoArt Media Mister colour of your choice, spray, allow to run down the
tag. I love this effect!

Then
I took one of the stamps from the new Prima, Finnabair set and randomly stamped
over the tag using black Archival.

Monday, 27 April 2015

This is
my last Monday post as a guest designer for “That’s Blogging Crafty” and I have
had a fabulous 2 months sharing with you my makes using some of the fabulous
stamps and products available from That's Crafty. If you are a regular follower of
this blog you will know that I love the stencil range designed by Matus de Meng
that are produced by Stencil Girl stencils, soI would like to end my 2 months on the team using the Stencil “Yearning
Desire”. This is not goodbye for me from That’s Crafty justau revoir. That’s Crafty have some exciting
news coming soon that I am so excited to be part of, so just watch this space!!

Instructions:-

My
background is a scrap piece of card that I have cleaned my brayer on having
used acrylic paints on other projects.

I then
placed my stencil over my background, held in place with low tack masking tape,
and applied black archival ink through it with a piece of Ranger Cut & Dry
Foam. The lips I masked off as to avoid contaminating with the black to then
add Magenta Hue Archival ink in the same way to add a contrast.

I
stamped the edges of the card with Kaisercraft Film Edges and added the
sentiment, also a Kaisercraft stamp.

One
last bit of stamping was the “Life in pictures” quote which is from Carabelle
Studio.

To
finish the piece I added a little more Picket Fence Distress Paint using an old
credit card.